Use Cases → By Threat
Service accounts, automation identities, and agents often have broad, quiet privilege. Forestall helps you find them, understand their reach, and reduce impact.
Non-human identities are poorly inventoried and rarely reviewed, privilege accumulates silently through "just in case" access, and it is unclear what an NHI compromise would actually unlock.
Forestall identifies and classifies high-risk NHIs and their privilege tier, maps relationships to show reachability and escalation routes, and prioritizes remediation by blast radius and chokepoints.
Scenario: A backup service account created five years ago holds Domain Admin membership and has never been included in an access review.
Problem: Service accounts accumulate elevated privilege without regular review or ownership.
Scenario: A CI/CD pipeline was decommissioned but its service principal retains contributor access to production subscriptions.
Problem: Stale automation identities retain access long after their purpose has ended.
Scenario: A monitoring agent account has read/write access spanning Tier 0 and Tier 2 objects, bypassing the intended segmentation model.
Problem: NHIs cross tier boundaries with reachability to critical identities.
Scenario: A computer account in an administrative OU has write permissions across the domain through group policy, allowing an attacker with local machine access to escalate to domain-wide control.
Problem: Computer and machine accounts are often overlooked in privilege reviews but can have excessive permissions and enable rapid escalation.
Practical guidance, product walkthroughs, and research on identity risk.
No. Forestall covers non-human and automation identity patterns broadly within supported identity sources, including service accounts, scheduled tasks, and agent identities.
No. Forestall operates with minimal read-only privileges and does not require Domain Admin access.
Yes. Forestall provides unified visibility across both Active Directory and Entra ID environments.
Forestall helps you prioritize lowest-risk, highest-impact changes using evidence, reducing the chance of operational disruption.
Yes. Reports and findings can be exported in multiple formats for governance workflows and stakeholder reviews.
Forestall offers a 1-day proof of value in your own environment, delivering actionable findings immediately.
Reduce quiet privilege and shrink blast radius with evidence-based prioritization.
